{
  "id": 5502946,
  "title": "Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/revealed-how-companies-secretly-use-billions-of-litres-of-public",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-04T06:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/04/revealed-how-companies-secretly-use-billions-of-litres-of-public-water-in-drought-hit-england"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Exclusive: As millions of people face hosepipe bans, many companies are not required to report, let alone cut, use of public supply Less than 1% of businesses in England use more water than the daily needs of 10 million people, as millions of households face hosepipe bans and three-quarters of the country is in drought. Businesses across England use 2.6bn litres a day from the public water…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}